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[202] 202 = 433. ἠμὲν . . ἠδέ imply an antithesis. αἴσυλα therefore can hardly be the right word; we want “αἴσιμα” (Düntzer), as well abuse as seemly speech. The phrase thus becomes a dignified rebuke. For “αἴσυλος” see note on “ἀήσυλος” 5.876; the word recurs in 5.403, 21.214, Od. 2.232, Od. 5.10, always in the sense “ἄδικος”. Ruhnken long ago conjectured “αἴσιμα” for “αἴσυλα” (“ἄρμενα” M) in Hymn. Merc. 164.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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